Severe Weather

Weather headlines 9/24

WEATHER HEADLINES FOR SEPTEMBER 24____________________________________________________________________LET IT SNOW!The current U.S. snow cover is at 0.3%Last year on this date is was 0%There will be a change the next few days with a snowstorm for Wyoming and Montana.
The heavy snow forecast from the WPC has a risk for at least 4 inches of snow around the Yellowstone Park area for the next 3 days. There is a Winter Storm WARNING for Yellowstone and Teton National Parks.

_______________________________________________________________________________NO MAJOR HURRICANES SO FAR THIS SEASON IN THE ATLANTICThere have been9 named storms in the Atlantic basin this year. Only one of those was a hurricane and it was a category 1 storm.A major hurricane is considered CAT 3 or higher. That's winds of 115 mph or higher.There has only been one other year with no major hurricanes and that was 1968. We are still in peak season, so there is still a possibility.The current forecast from the National Hurricane Center (map) show no development at this time.A hybrid, non-tropical system, is developing in the Atlantic and may cause some wether problems along the east coast this weekend._______________________________________________________________________________ACE INDEX IS VERY LOW FOR THIS SEASONA more accurate way of measuring the strength of the tropical storm season is not the number of storms, but using the ACE index.The ACE index is a wind energy index, defined as the sum of the squares of the maximum sustained surface wind speed (knots) measured every six hours for all named storms while they are at least tropical storm strength.In an average season, the ACE index totals 110.So far this year the Atlantic basin ACE index is 24.This is the lowest since 1983.The ACE index for 2005, the year of Katrina and other big storms, was 265.Super Typhoon Usagi which just missed Taiwan this past week had a higher ACE index than the entire Atlantic 9 storms combined._______________________________________________________________________________LOUISVILLE IS A VERY COMPASSIONATE CITYWe already know that Louisville is very compassionate. Now the word is getting out around the country.Forbes.com had an article listing the top 10 compassionate cities in the U.S. and Louisville made this list. To see the article....click HERE_______________________________________________________________________________A SMALL TOWN'S STORY AFTER THE COLORADO FLOODIt is so sad to hear all of the stories coming out of Colorado these days. Here is another one about the small town of Glen Haven and it's struggle after the flood......click HEREAll of the missing people from the flood have now been accounted for._______________________________________________________________________________PANDA-MONIUMBaby pandas in China......